Tell Us Your Story

We’d love to know all about your experience with ADEs. Do you operate or work for an ADE, or do you have a family member or friend who’s a support worker or a supported employee? Are you a local business that uses the services of an ADE? Are you a community member that support ADEs?.Let us know and we’ll feature your story on our website. If you can, please also upload a good-quality photo (JPG,PNG) of you, your family member or friend, or showing what happens at your ADE.

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What is an ADE?

An Australian Disability Enterprise (ADE) is a not-for-profit organisation, with charitable status, which provides meaningful employment for people with significant disability who would otherwise not be able to work. It is a business that makes products, or provides services. It is usually run by a not-for-profit organisation, but it is still expected to make a surplus after paying all its costs, including staff salaries.

Who works there?

So, an ADE operates in the same way as other businesses, but there is one major difference. An ADE employs people with disability, and its employees are supported in their work.

'Supported' means that there are support workers available to give the employees any assistance they need with their tasks. For example, an employee with learning difficulties may need regular reminders from their support worker about how to do a task. Support workers are also paid employees of the ADE.